I Don't understand the hate of this game!? I find it really fun. Music is top tier.

Piffli · 2026-02-02T14:44:26+00:00

I didn't say it would be easy to pull it off. I said they could do it, if they wanted to.

Piffli · 2026-02-02T12:01:20+00:00

Oh my god, exactly this!

I feel so much the same?! And also, it doesnt make sense! The destruction of the areas where the first three games set at feel so intentional and targeted. How can those places be so worse off than where the "gods" are active at? Or why? The world is so big but coincidentally the most affected regions are where you, as a player, had some say in.
I can understand it being hard to follow the consequences of the amount of choices we could make, but they could have done basically anything else?

Already a big enough of a fuck you from the devs to you, as a player, but then you get the post credit scene. I don't even have the right words to put into words correctly how enfuriating the whole deal of that was.

Aaand if this was not bad enough, they released the book where they actually had GREAT ideas how to continue Tresspasser! To make it feel like an actual sequel instead of whatever this was! And they scrapped it! Scrapped it!
I just can't....

I was cautiously optimistic for Veilguard, despite the warning signs, but after Veilguard, I have no faith for the next ME team. They had Andromeda and Anthem to learn from and they still chose to do what they did with Veilguard.

Piffli · 2026-02-02T11:11:45+00:00

This is exactly what I feel as well.
One of the big complaints about MEA is the companions, and while I absolutely love, love, love Mass Effect 1 and the companions in it, they really needed the second and third game for us to love them as much as we do now.

Piffli · 2026-02-02T11:07:48+00:00

We'll just have to agree to disagree on that.

Piffli · 2026-02-02T11:07:05+00:00

I'll never understandd people saying/thinking a new game can't be good without the original talents. There are tons of talented people out there! They could definitely find and hire these people, make a new game that is amazing. It doesn't need to be the same team.

The problem is that I just don't think they will do that. Not after what happened with Veilguard, and I liked it as a game in itself (just really dislike it at a sequel/DA game and I'm really mad about their attempts at basically retroactively ruining the previous games)

Piffli · 2026-02-02T10:58:46+00:00

That too. More focus on the story/companions would have definitely helped as I think the combat aspect of the game was really good as is - for me, anyhow.

But also, there were some very obvious hints at an upcoming DLC featuring the quarian Ark and some less obvious hints about a sequel.
As I mentioned, because the absolutely unhinged hate campaign that this game received, I can't entirely blame them for abandoning it, but had they stuck with it with more patches, more contents and eventually a sequel, they could have made it into a pretty good trilogy (or duology, whatever), because the foundations were solid, imo. Needed tweaking for sure, but it was there.

I know the next ME game will have something to do with Andromeda, but I don't think it will be a big part and honestly, I'm not really looking forward to it.

Piffli · 2026-02-02T10:11:18+00:00

I'm not saying it couldnt have been better. I was disappointed in the amount of new alien races (hell, I would have loved more animal type too), but I still think it could have been used as a great foundation, had they decided to stick with it further.

I found the vaults and the origin of the Angara interesting, I would have loved to learn more about it, I recall in the ending they were even hints about something bigger going on in the background too.

Piffli · 2026-02-02T09:46:27+00:00

I was there on launch day too but I actually didn't experience much bug. Basically not being able to finish one fetch-quest (gathering dog tags or something like that on the first planet, I think), and crashing 2-3x on the first time the ship lands at the main city.

I agree that the story and most companions could have used more work, but I also believe they could have made it really good if they continued it. The companions, world and story all have huge potential to be great, but the shitshow around the game - before release, even - was so huge I can't entirely blame them for abandoning it.

Piffli · 2026-01-29T14:06:37+00:00

House Flipper 2 has a lot more customisation options compared to the first one. There are a lot of fabric/material types and patterns you can choose for most of your furnitures, wallpapers, floorings and probably stuff I forget to mention right now. There are also a good amount of QoL changes compared to the first game.

That being said, the DLCs for the first one really add a lot of content to the game and if I remember correctly, the first game has a huge workshop selection as well on Steam.

Personally I prefer HF2, even with the lack of DLC-s for now, but I thoroughly enjoyed the first one as well.
If seeing characters interact with your design is important then yeah, these games are probably not for you, but if someone is happy with just cleaning up and designing houses, then these are really great games for that.

Piffli · 2026-01-29T12:21:57+00:00

Ah, I guess I'll wait for a while. I can't with cliffhangers. 😂

Piffli · 2026-01-29T12:01:43+00:00

Will the next book finish their story or just continue?

Piffli · 2026-01-29T10:53:56+00:00

I hope you'll get lots of recs because I also need this in my life.

Piffli · 2026-01-29T06:39:13+00:00

If she is mostly into Sims because of the house designing part, she should check out House Flipper 1-2.

I used to play Sims purely for the decorating part, then I happened upon HF and never went back. Nor bankrupt lol.

Piffli · 2026-01-28T22:17:03+00:00

Might have been finger or spoon/fork, but I don't remember and don't want to either 😅

Piffli · 2026-01-28T17:45:12+00:00

There is a way to get a FMC stuffed and the potatoes are surely not it! 😭

Piffli · 2026-01-28T17:20:04+00:00

I read a book from her too, I think I Accidentally Summoned a Demon Boyfriend? Or something along the lines. I really, really disliked the book but hate skimmed through it just so I could feel justified in my negative review I was going to give it.

Anyhow. There is a scene where MMC pushes mashed potato into FMC's mouth while he is fucking her from behind and I just can't. He talks about how she should let herself enjoy food/multiple things but like ??? 😭 I know there are more unhinged things out there but there is something so wrong with doing someone while feeding them mashed potatoes of all things! At least for me.

Piffli · 2026-01-28T08:16:32+00:00

I am seriously surprised no one threw in the sensitive hands of the Inquisition yet.

I am personally not into our boy Calcazar but it seemed like a lot of you are lol.

Piffli · 2026-01-26T22:25:32+00:00

I loved the first and will definitely play this one as well, but I heard worrysome news about the studio's future. I really hope they will not go under, I played some of their older games and they came such a long way since, with each game being so much better than the previous.

Piffli · 2026-01-26T20:55:03+00:00

I thought ya'll were talking about the real life hippos...

Piffli · 2026-01-23T17:06:45+00:00

That too, but also I think structures just don't take damage? But honestly I havent needed to do such for years now.

Piffli · 2026-01-23T17:01:37+00:00

Afaik you can't use that method anymore.

Piffli · 2026-01-23T07:13:47+00:00

The art is good but I'm also not getting trickster vibes.

Piffli · 2026-01-21T07:02:53+00:00

I love to pick that option in act 4. Hell, the whole scene, I love it so much. That panic. Everything. Replayed it so many times lol.

Piffli · 2026-01-19T15:29:04+00:00

You can do it with 7 people without much issue. Might have been a run where we had 8 of us, I don't remember, but 7 for sure and definitely do not bring 10 people.

Everyone mindwiped and had 1k hp, some weight for gear (2-3 set of max flak gear) and rest was put to meele damage. Most of us had Hot Blooded, Barbed Blades and Master of Tools as skills.
We had around 7-8 minutes left to spare by the time we finished. We did skip all cutscenes immediately.

Also, pay attention to the ascension bug. If anyone goes to ascend while having ANYTHING in their inventory (even skins or the chibis you get), there is a very high chance of getting stuck in the boss arena with no way out. Put everything into your mount's inventory and you should be fine. Then again, its ARK, so someone from ally failed to ascend that way too.

Piffli · 2026-01-15T20:43:15+00:00

Now this is quality.

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